Fun in the Sun: Must-Do Activities for a Tampa Vacation, Tampa, Florida

There are just a couple of short weeks left before summer officially ends, but that’s not stopping me from launching into a Tampa, Florida series! After all, summer goes on forever in the Sunshine State, and it’s a great place to visit any time of year!

This week, I want to share some of my favorite activities in the Tampa area that aren’t on the CityPass. Don’t worry -I’ll get into all that fun later. For today, I have 5 fun activities for you to add to your bucket list!

Tampa’s quiet bay is the perfect spot to hop on a Seadoo and make some waves. This natural harbor has plenty of space to zip around, yet it’s protected from harsher ocean winds and has a stunning view of Tampa’s skyline.

As you can probably imagine, there’s no shortage of rental places to book your jet skiing adventure. But I want to give a big shoutout to Paramount Water Sports for being a fantastic host for our group of 8! A lot of the other places were more expensive or only catered to smaller groups. But Paramount was so easy to work with and very reasonably priced.

We split into 4 groups and had 2 people on a jet ski for an hour of fun on Tampa Bay. This ended up being the perfect length of time, and the location was so perfect! ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).